I used to be much more interested in Thai culture but sort of in the way any white people see it as a different exotic culture. I wasn't actually more interested in Thai culture than any other "exotic" culture. My identity is Danish and I don't feel guilty about it. I don't know how I feel about my bparents. I posted a long thing about it on the support forum on a thread about birth mothers. I don't think there's anything strange or wrong in not being interested in your birth culture and if you should become a parent one day to children who are interested, then I don't think it's too much to ask that they do their own research but be open and supportive about it. I don't feel Thai at all, I'm just Danish and that's just a fact. I'm often amused when I look in the mirror and this oriental face stares back at me that I don't "recognize" for lack of better wording but I had expected to see a recognizable face with features and coloring like my white family, lol!
I don't think you should feel guilty at all and I don't think you should let anyone make you feel guilty.
I'm new and maybe I'll understand after a while, but right now I don't understand this thing about aculture and own culture. Isn't my
own culture the one I identify with
??? I feel that Danish culture is
my own culture and Thai culture is just my birth culture or quite frankly, a culture like any other culture and right now I can't see what it has to do with me
*shrugs*.